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“Attacking staffers, planting false stories, and endangering national security by leaking sensitive information to the press, including information about intelligence sources — this is what the DOJ is doing, and this why trust in the DOJ is rapidly eroding in Congress,” said California Rep. Devin Nunes, the GOP chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

My cousins have a pair of “pet” eagles on the lake where they live in very northern Wisconsin. The same couple staked out their territory years ago and continue to raise two to three bobble heads every spring. The only problem is the male has become an adept swimmer and steals the walleye and muskie off the lines when a fishermen are reeling in a big one and, because the fish is usually too heavy to fly back to the nest, the eagle do “the crawl” — wing over wing — to the shore where they patiently tear it into smaller chunks. The dern birds are so spoiled, they don’t bother with the smaller catch.

“#NaughtAvenatti bankruptcy fraud guide: debtor claims he owes $ to a creditor that is “priority” (e.g., 1st in line for any assets or income that come in), when this creditor is really a stalking horse for the debtor. See the mysterious $17M creditor that vanishes in his BK case.”

It is my distinct honor to accept this unique recognition, from the State of Israel, for the greatest defender of the Jewish State ever to sit in the Oval Office. I know the President is honored by this expression of the high esteem and great affection from the people of Israel.

Just as President Truman made history then, @POTUS Trump has made history now — thanks to @POTUS’ leadership, almost exactly 70 years to the minute since the rebirth of the Jewish State, the American Embassy officially opened in Jerusalem, the capital of the State of Israel!

Don’t believe KAC a leaker. 2018/2020 is around the corner and that means it’s Kelly Ann time. Other than POTUS, KAC is the most valuable election asset. Time for an attack on her. They would love to take her out.

“It was July 31, 2016. Just days earlier, the Obama administration had quietly opened an FBI counterintelligence investigation of Russian cyber-espionage — hacking attacks — to disrupt the 2016 election. And not random, general disruption; the operating theory was that the Russians were targeting the Democratic party, for the purpose of helping Donald Trump win the presidency.

FBI special agent Peter Strzok was downright giddy that day.

The Bureau had finally put to bed “Mid Year Exam.” MYE was code for the dreaded investigation of Hillary Clinton’s improper use of a private email system to conduct State Department business, which resulted in the retention and transmission of thousands of classified emails, as well as the destruction of tens of thousands of government business records. Strzok and other FBI vets dreaded the case because it was a go-through-the-motions exercise: Everyone working on it knew that no one was going to be charged with a crime; that Mrs. Clinton was going to be the next president of the United States; and that the FBI’s goal was not to be tarnished in the process of “investigating” her — to demonstrate, without calling attention to the suffocating constraints imposed by the Obama Justice Department, that the Bureau had done a thorough job, and that there was a legal rationale for letting Clinton off the hook that might pass the laugh test.”

Except our invaders aren’t doing it with bombs, grenades, rockets, etc,
Nevertheless, i’m Certain the Israelis can teach a lot about security. I remember people saying we should have their airport security measures…well, we have a few thousand airports and they have a handful….apples and oranges.

We discuss remittances going to Mexico, but it turns out remittances are going to the Middle East and Africa as well. Suitcases full of cash leave Minnesota each week. Did you know you can fly out with $1 million in cash as long as you complete the proper government forms? I didn’t.

The cash goes to Sharia banks, and goes to fund al Shabaab. But it is where the money is coming from that is even more interesting. The taxpayers, via government, by means of welfare fraud. FTA:

To better understand the connection between daycare fraud and the surge in carry-on cash, you have to look at the history of this crime.

Five years ago the Fox 9 Investigators were first to report that daycare fraud was on the rise in Minnesota, exposing how some businesses were gaming the system to steal millions in government subsidies meant to help low-income families with their childcare expenses.

“It’s a great way to make some money,” Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said.

“…In order for the scheme to work, the daycare centers need to sign up low income families that qualify for child care assistance funding.

Surveillance videos from a case prosecuted by Hennepin County show parents checking their kids into a center, only to leave with them a few minutes later. Sometimes, no children would show up.

Either way, the center would bill the state for a full day of childcare….”

IIRC, and I’m not sure I am, in the article it had a quote from a Deputy Director or something like that from Health and Human Services expressing appropriate outrage but not saying what they were gonna do about it.

That must mean the Dept of HHS is responsible for doling out the day care dollars to the public assistance (TANF) families via the states.

I vaguely remember this coming up in Seattle a few years ago. Seattle also has a HUGE Somali population. The suitcases full of cash were flowing through Sea-Tac airport like water.

And where is the FBI? Hmm… If I had to guess they are so busy plotting and scheming against our President they don’t have time for such picayune concerns as defrauding the taxpayers and shipping the cash to terrorist organizations.

This kind of thing simply enrages me. It would seem a fairly simple thing to fix, stop, eliminate. If all they did was do a random spot check audit of these day cares I’m sure it would be easy to find…but there has to be a will to find it.

Instead the narrative is about these poor immigrants, refugees, needy folks that us rich Americans can jolly well fork out money for and if we object we’re not compassionate or we’re rayciss haters or something.

“But in a book set to be published next month titled “The Faking of Russia-Gate: The Papadopoulos Case” Roh argues strongly he had no role in the Trump campaign while he and his co-author Thierry Pastor claim Mifsud was not a Russian spy but “part of the game” with “close links to “Western secret services and the Clinton network.”

Arguing the alleged Russian connections to the 2016 US presidential election have been faked to discredit Trump, they also claim Papadopoulos was a Western intelligence operative embedded by the FBI within the Trump election team.”

"I think there's millions of me across the country, and I’m hoping that each one of those people will go out and tell these politicians we’re not gonna take it, and we’re gonna stand up for our rights and we’re gonna hold on to them." – #2A Champion Mark Robinson #NRApic.twitter.com/IC1nfLQ20D

Well, the latest social “experiment” was just approved 8-1 by the city council of Seattle, instituting a “full time employee tax” of $275, per employee per business entity per year—to pay for “taking care of the homeless and housing crisis situations” in Seattle. This according to 8PM East Coast time FoxNewsRadio.
The tax was supposed to be $500. per full time employee per business entity per year. The city council “reduced” the tax because large Seattle employers like AMAZON said they’d pull up stakes. Wonder if Amazon and the other employers who objected will pull up stakes now that the tax is “only” $275. per.

My disgust is so deep I hardly know where to start. I guess about the only comment I can make at the moment is I take some small degree of pleasure when the Left begins eating itself. I hope that Amazon, Starbucks, and other lefty enterprises embrace the tax joyfully, and that the silly Seattle voters are thrilled THRILLED to pay $50.00 for a latte knowing that all those taxes and helping the homeless.

I got sidetracked a couple of days ago when Sundance speculated on Stefan Halper & ended up writingp 3 posts that delved into some of the supportive details referred to by Sundance. This is just fyi, for some have found at least the first post to be helpful. Here are the other posts too…

I’m just offering these posts as a bit of “shorthand” on some of the very lengthy references Sundance referred us to in his initial post naming Halper. Blessings to all Treepers & Thank God, literally for President Trump…& for Sundance!

Israel no better than the nazis if they will shoot and kill unarmed people . Even if you support Israel , the more heavy handed tactics they use against the Palestinians the more they are becoming what they claim to hate . The Palestinians are now powerless and are at the mercy of Israel . It will be interesting to see who truly wants peace .

Maripousa Gaza protestors armed with and throwing grenades=unarmed protestors. Learn Progressive speak before getting the vapors over the poor Palestinians and those horrid Israelis who were so mean to them. It was a frikking battle. They were warned. They didn’t listen and attacked anyway. Tough love. EVERYONE is getting sick of these petulant psychos except their enablers in the West. I implore you not to be an enabler. It will only prolong the suffering.

They were lobbing molotov cocktails, rocks and grenades at the IDF while a group were trying to blow up the fence…. so the mob could pour into Israel and murder Jews… all organized on Facebook.

So, this is okay with you? They should be allowed to do this without repercussion?

Do you know that the children of these terrorists are RAISED to hate Jews? Do you know that they are taught to kill all Jews? There is ample video evidence, documentary evidence to show how the hate is taught. Did you know that they think it is their duty to DIE in the cause of taking out the Jews? Their families will get paid for that effort….

Hamas/Hezebollah DO NOT WANT PEACE. They want the annihilation of Israel. That is their reason to exist.

Now, what would you do when confronted by that surge of violence at your border…?

Israel no better than the nazis if they will shoot and kill unarmed people . Even if you support Israel , the more heavy handed tactics they use against the Palestinians the more they are becoming what they claim to hate . The Palestinians are now powerless and are at the mercy of Israel . It will be interesting to see who truly wants peace .

Rush coined a term for you: a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance. Frankly that understates it.

Quick Proof. Would you, your spouse and kids, wearing yarmulkes, a star of David carrying an Israeli flag go for a stroll among these peaceful, unarmed, Palestinians?

I wish I could wave a magic wand and send you and all your fellow liars right into the midst of these savages and see exactly what happens.

Apologies if someone posted this earlier. I found this on Barnes_Law.
Kim Strassel says the FBI did have an asset in the Trump campaign. To me that sounds like Papadoofus or Carter Page.

Listen to .@KimStrassel give stunning details about Devin Nunes and Trey Gowdy’s investigation into the documents that allegedly give details about the FBI placing a spy inside the 2016 Trump campaign?